Invasive Burmese pythons have slithered to a new location in South Florida, establishing a colony outside the previously ...

Burmese pythons have haunted the Florida Everglades for more than two decades, growing from a handful of escaped or released ...

A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason. Even after 294 Burmese pythons were removed in just 10 days, experts ...

On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to ...

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...

Florida's invasive Burmese python may have met its match with the opossum. Researchers in Florida are using an unexpected tool to help fight invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums.

That's what python hunters are likely saying today in anticipation of Tuesday's (May 19) announcement locking down the dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. If there's anything close to what ...